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Abilene ISD trustees uphold SLAC recommendations, reject book-challenge appeal
Summary
After public comments defending challenged titles and requests to protect volunteer SLAC members from online harassment, the Abilene ISD board on Jan. 8 denied an appeal and affirmed SLAC recommendations to retain or reclassify several high-school titles; trustees recorded a roll-call vote and the board will proceed with the SLAC-approved purchase timeline.
Abilene ISD trustees voted on Jan. 8 to deny an appeal of SLAC (the district’s school-library advisory) recommendations and to affirm the committee’s prior decisions on a set of challenged high-school titles.
The motion to deny the appeal and confirm SLAC’s recommendations was made by Trustee Taylor Tidmore and seconded by Trustee Blair Schrader. The board read aloud the list of high-school titles the motion would keep on district shelves: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; The Bluest Eye; The Glass Castle; The Kite Runner; The Lovely Bones; 19 Minutes; Poet X; Sold; Speak; and Will Grayson, Will Grayson. A roll-call vote was taken with trustees responding as recorded in the meeting transcript: Rodney Goodman — No; Angie Wiley — Yes; Bill Enriquez — Absent; (Cindy — recorded in transcript) — Yes; Blair…
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